While most MPs are back in their ridings for a parliamentary break week, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is globe trotting again. Following a visit to the Netherlands over the weekend, Baird joined International Trade Minister Ed Fast in India Sunday. He announced that Canada’s new high commissioner to India will be Nadir Patel, who previously served as assistant deputy minister and CFO for the foreign affairs department in Ottawa. Baird will head to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Wednesday to Friday, where he will discuss relations between Canada and the two countries.

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